DUBITATIO  

HISTRIONIC EXCLAMATIO declaring oneself to be in doubt about how to express oneself or what to say.

假躊躇法 Display of feigned uncertainty as to what to say or how to express oneself.

Contrast APORIA which is a display of uncertainty what (ultimately) to think.

Hypernym
  • EXCLAMATIOSPEECH ACT of exclaiming and thus venting an emotion or expressing a reaction vividly. 感嘆法 Exclamatory expression of emotion. Often difficult to distinguish from ADMIRATIO, which involves an attendant expectation that a matter referred to is astonishing. Also to be distinguished from EXCLAMATIO POETICA which is less assertively exclamatory and more appreciative.
    • SPEECH ACTRHETORICAL TROPE in the form of a deliberate rhetorico-semantic act performed. [This definition is still a tentative stop-gap, and this category is far larger than I would like. It needs to be intelligently subdivided. CH]
      • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
Hyponym
  • APORIADUBITATIO declaring oneself to be left with a problem unsolvable not only by oneself but also by anyone else. Declaration that one is in unresolved doubt about a matter. The uncertainty may be linguistic (about how to express oneself) or intellectual (about what one ought to think).Greek: aporia, diaporeesis
    • APORIA-CONCLUDING　APORIA concluding a discourse unit. Declaration that one is uncertain at the end of a paragraph, argument, or passage.
    REF: Lausberg 776-779

    Greek/Latin: Frequently discussed by the classical rhetoricians. Quint 9.2.19 affert aliquam fidem veritatis et dubitatio, cum simulamus quaerere nos, ude incipiendum, ubi desinendum, quid potissimum dicendum...sit; cuiusmodi exemplis plena sun omnia, sed unum interim sufficit...

    Ancient Chinese: very rare indeed. But note that Confucius seems to cultivate this form.

    Compare APORIA.

    Rhetorical device locations: 2
    • 論語 非與？」
    • 論語 蓋有之矣，我未之見也。」